Laâyoune Province
Laâyoune Province (Arabic: إقليم العيون; Spanish: Provincia de El Aaiún) is a delineated province in the north-west of the Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra region, which is situated within the northern part of the Moroccan-occupied territory of Western Sahara. Its population in 2004 was 210,023 (when it still included the population of the new Tarfaya Province, created in 2009). In today's limits of the province the population was 199,603.[1] Its main town is Laayoune.[2]
Subdivisions
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The province is divided administratively into the following:[3]
| Name | Geographic code | Type | Households | Population (2004) | Foreign population | Moroccan settlers | Notes |
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| El Marsa | 321.01.01. | Municipality | 2850 | 10229 | 11 | 10218 | |
| Laayoune | 321.01.03. | Municipality | 37545 | 183691 | 477 | 183214 | |
| Bou Craa | 321.03.01. | Rural commune | 505 | 2519 | 0 | 2519 | |
| Dcheira | 321.03.03. | Rural commune | 313 | 1745 | 1 | 1744 | |
| Foum El Oued | 321.03.05. | Rural commune | 325 | 1419 | 14 | 1405 |
Since 2009, the following communes have been separated into the Tarfaya Province: The municipality of Tarfaya, and the rural communes of El Hagounia, Akhfenir, Daoura, and Tah.[4]
References
[edit]- ↑ "World Gazteteer".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ↑ "World Gazteteer".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ↑ "Recensement général de la population et de l'habitat de 2004" (PDF). Haut-commissariat au Plan, Lavieeco.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2012. Retrieved 27 April 2012.
- ↑ "Annuaire statistique régional Laâyoune-Boujdour-Sakia El Hamra, 2010 (version arabe et française)" (in French and Arabic). The Government of Morocco. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
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